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THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 7
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Paul answers special questions about marriage among those called on missions—Paul extols self-discipline.
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Now</span> concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/1a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Cor. 7: 1  . . .  saying, It is good  . . ."><i>It</i></a> is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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Nevertheless, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/2a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Cor. 7: 2  . . .  I say, to avoid  . . ."><i>to</i></a> avoid <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Fornication.">fornication</a>, let every man have his own <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/7/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Marriage; TG Marriage, Wives.">wife</a>, and let every woman have her own husband.
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Let the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Husbands.">husband</a> render unto the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Wives.">wife</a> due <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/7/3c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Benevolence; TG Family, Love within; TG Marriage, Continuing Courtship in.">benevolence</a>: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
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The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/5a" mark="a" type="J" title="JST 1 Cor. 7: 5 Depart ye not one from the other  . . .; TG Family, Love within; TG Fraud.">Defraud</a> ye not one the other, except <i>it be</i> with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Devil.">Satan</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/7/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Test, Try, Prove.">tempt</a> you not for your incontinency.
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But I speak this by permission, <i>and</i> not of commandment.
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For I would that all men were even as I myself.  But every man hath his <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR own.">proper</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Gifts of; TG Holy Ghost, Gifts of.">gift</a> of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
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I say therefore to the unmarried and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Widows.">widows</a>, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/9a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Cor. 7: 9 But if they cannot abide, let them marry; for it is better to marry than that any should commit sin.">But</a> if they cannot <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/9b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR use self-control.">contain</a>, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/7/9c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR burn with lust.">burn</a>.
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And unto the married I command, <i>yet</i> not I, but the Lord, Let not the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/10a" mark="a" type="C" title="Matt. 5: 32; TG Chastity; TG Family, Patriarchal.">wife</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Divorce.">depart</a> from <i>her</i> husband:
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But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Peacemakers; TG Reconciliation.">reconciled</a> to <i>her</i> husband: and let not the husband <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Divorce.">put</a> away <i>his</i> wife.
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But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
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And the woman which hath an <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Husbands.">husband</a> that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
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For the unbelieving <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Interfaith.">husband</a> is <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sanctification.">sanctified</a> by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/7/14c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR cleansed.">sanctified</a> by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
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But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart.  A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such <i>cases:</i> but God hath called us <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/15a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR in.">to</a> peace.
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For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within.">save</a> <i>thy</i> husband?  or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save <i>thy</i> wife?
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But as <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 12: 3.">God</a> hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk.  And so <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/17b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR order, prescribe.">ordain</a> I in all churches.
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Is any man called being circumcised?  let him not <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/18a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR conceal, obliterate circumcision.">become</a> uncircumcised.  Is any called in uncircumcision?  let him not be circumcised.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Circumcision.">Circumcision</a> is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
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Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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Art thou called <i>being</i> a servant?  care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use <i>it</i> rather.
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For he that is called in the Lord, <i>being</i> a servant, is the Lord’s <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 5: 8; D&C 88: 86.">freeman</a>: likewise also he that is called, <i>being</i> free, is Christ’s <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/22b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eph. 6: 6; Col. 3: 24.">servant</a>.
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Ye are <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 6: 19 (19-20).">bought</a> with a price; be not ye the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/23b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR slaves.">servants</a> of men.
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Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
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Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Tim. 1: 13.">mercy</a> of the Lord to be faithful.
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I suppose therefore that this is good for the present <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/26a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR trial, affliction.">distress</a>, <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/26b" mark="b" type="H" title="JST 1 Cor. 7: 26  . . .  for a man so to remain that he may do greater good."><i>I</i></a> <i>say,</i> that <i>it is</i> good for a man so to be.
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Art thou bound unto a wife?  seek not to be loosed.  Art thou loosed from a wife?  seek not a wife.
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But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned.  Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/29a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Cor. 7: 1-2, 5, 26, 29-33 (Appendix).">But</a> this I say, brethren, the time <i>is</i> short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
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And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
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And they that use this world, as not abusing <i>it:</i> for the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="James 4: 14; 1 Jn. 2: 17.">fashion</a> of this <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/31b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Worldliness.">world</a> passeth away.
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But I would have you without <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/32a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR cares.">carefulness</a>.  He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
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But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please <i>his</i> wife.
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There is difference <i>also</i> between a wife and a virgin.  The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please <i>her</i> husband.
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And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
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But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of <i>her</i> age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
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Nevertheless, he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/38a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Cor. 7: 38 So then he that giveth himself in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth himself not in marriage doeth better.">So</a> then he that giveth <i>her</i> in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth <i>her</i> not in marriage doeth better.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/7/39a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Wives.">wife</a> is bound by the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/7/39b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Temporal.">law</a> as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
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But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
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